2009 National Board of Review Awards

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and
movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films
in Review. Find out which movies and artists were awarded top honors in film—including best picture, best actor and actress, and best director—for 2009.

Best Picture:

Up In The Air

Best Foreign Language Film:

A Prophet

Best Actor:

George Clooney, Up In The Air
Morgan Freeman, Invictus

Best Actress:

Carey Mulligan, An Education

Best Supporting Actor:

Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Best Supporting Actress:

Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air

Best Ensemble Cast:

It's Complicated

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor

Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress:

Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

Best Director:

Clint Eastwood, Invictus

Best Directorial Debut:

Courtney Hunt, Frozen River

Best Original Screenplay:

Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air

Best Documentary:

The Cove

Best Animated Feature:

UP

William K. Everson Award for Film History:

Jean Picker Firstenberg

Freedom of Expression:

Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country; Invictus; The Most Dangerous Man In America; Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Press